...'Opening Doors to Wellness'

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An accomplished and successful senior
executive, entrepreneur, and product designer, John Buck possesses over five
decades of professional experience in conceptualizing, engineering, and
bringing to market innovative solutions that address distinct business and
consumer challenges.

Currently, Buck is the founder, president,
and chief executive officer (CEO) of Camarillo, Calif.-based Healthy Fingers™,
LLC, a recently-launched company which specializes in the production, sales,
and marketing of hands-free, germ-safe pivoting arm bars and pads to open doors
in a wide range of consumer, business, and government environments. The result
of over three years of intense research and development, the multi-patented
design significantly reduces the occurrence of cold and flu symptoms, and other
hand-to-face transmitted diseases, by enabling individuals to open doors
without using their hands to grab bacteria-ridden door handles. The Healthy
Fingers pivoting arm bar is not just a revolutionary door opener; rather, it is
a preventative healthcare product which thwarts the transmission of harmful
germs, bacteria, and viruses often found in and around public places. Buck
expects this revolutionary product, when in wide deployment, to dramatically diminish
the spread of influenza, colds, and other hand-transmitted sicknesses, and save
countless lives and billions of dollars in medical expenses and lost employee productivity
in the process.

Prior to establishing Healthy Fingers, Buck
was president and CEO of MicroEngineering, Inc., a Chatsworth, Calif.-based
company which manufactured and marketed a full line of new sewer equipment that
included leak detectors, pipe locators, sewer locators, and video inspection
systems. During his tenure at the company, which he founded in 1990, Buck
forged new industry sales and marketing paradigms that dramatically accelerated
MicroEngineering’s rapid revenue growth. He agreed to fabricate and supply
private-label products for major companies with huge mail order channels, which
immediately had a positive impact on sales. Additionally, he placed
point-of-purchase (P.O.P.) displays in many stores operated by Familian Pipe
Supply, a well-known national retail outlet for plumbers. The Familian
relationship proved to be critically important to MicroEngineering’s success.
Instead of each store carrying a minimum level of MicroEnginering inventory,
Buck agreed to ship customers’ orders overnight so Familian did not have to
incur standard stocking costs. Familian also introduced Buck to many of its
store managers, who gave him the opportunity to demonstrate MicroEngineering
products directly to customers and create another valuable sales channel. Buck
sold MicroEngineering in 2001 to St. Paul, Minn.-headquartered MyTana
Manufacturing (www.mytana.com), which is still
selling many of Buck’s original products to this day.

From 1980 to 1993, Buck was president and
partner of Acoustic Emission Leak Locators (AELL) Corp., a Canoga Park, Calif.
company which produced, marketed, and sold equipment and services to heavy
industries, such as chemical manufacturing plants. While at AELL, Buck and his
team designed, fabricated, and installed a leak monitoring system for Air Force
satellites to be carried into space by the Challenger space shuttle. Also under
his leadership, AELL developed special systems for the location of leaks in
underwater pipelines and above-ground storage tanks.

Previously, Buck spent 17 years as a nuclear
engineer in the Atomics International division of North American Aviation,
which became part of well-known
aerospace and defense contractor Rockwell
International in 1967 and is now part of Boeing. He was responsible for the design and fabrication
of nuclear radiation experiments which were irradiated in various reactors in
the United States, and the calculation of nuclear flux levels in those reactors
using special computer code. This work, which took him to many reactor sites across
the country to facilitate the experiments, required the highest-level security
clearances in various technologies. In addition, he also oversaw the research,
development and implementation of a new non-destructive testing product line of
acoustic emission systems which were used in nuclear reactors and in various
applications for the oil refining and chemical processing industries. During
his tenure at Atomics International, Buck also developed and marketed an
entirely new technology that involved listening for the expansion of cracks in
operating industrial environments, particularly oil refineries and nuclear
reactor plants. This technology ended up becoming a robust line of business for
the company.

Buck began his career as a nuclear project engineer
for Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR),
which designs, builds, and maintains many of the world’s most challenging and
complex capital projects. While at Fluor, he authored the operating manual and
designed the fueling system for the experimental
organic cooled reactor (ECOR)
reactor, an early nuclear power concept studied in the formative years by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and others around the world, at the
National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS). The station was part of the Idaho National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of
Energy’s lead nuclear research and development facility located near Idaho
Falls, Idaho.

Buck holds a Bachelor
of Science degree in physics from Iowa State University, with minors in
mathematics and nuclear engineering. While enrolled in college, he studied
graduate-level nuclear engineering under Dr. Glenn Murphy, one of the initial Oak Ridge School
of Reactor Technology (ORSORT) students taught by world-renowned
theoretical physicist Dr. Edward Teller, often referred to as “The Father of
the Hydrogen Bomb.” Buck later had the opportunity to meet and discuss nuclear
engineering with Dr. Teller, one of the most notable technical highlights of
Buck’s distinguished career. He also holds a California professional license in
nuclear engineering (NU 1895), given to a relative few who have demonstrated
significant knowledge and technical proficiency in nuclear engineering as outlined
by the management of Atomics International and approved by a special board of
nuclear engineers appointed by the state of California. He has held this
designation since 1977.